Atmospheric sciences is an interdisciplinary field that explores the physical, chemical, and dynamical processes governing Earth’s gaseous envelope. This discipline integrates principles of ...

Mars is a dusty planet dominated by vast, dry deserts, with no easily accessible sources of liquid water. Much like on Earth, dust is lifted from Mars's surface by wind and rotating air columns, ...

Foolish and counterproductive are two words that come to mind regarding the Trump administration’s plan to break up the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado. NCAR is the crown ...

People have always looked for patterns to explain the universe and to predict the future. “Red sky at night, sailor’s delight. Red sky in morning, sailor’s warning” is an adage predicting the weather.

During a La Niña, a counterpart to the El Niño weather pattern, drier than normal conditions are to be expected. But 2023, a La Niña year, turned out to be California’s 10th-wettest year on record.

A groundbreaking study on the freezing of water droplets suspended in air sheds light on a key process in Earth's water cycle: the transformation of supercooled water into ice. A groundbreaking ...